Know Your End Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the speaker becomes aware of an inner end and the measure of his days, and he discovers that worldly riches and fashions are but a disquieting show. In Neville’s frame, this is not doom but a doorway: the end is a mental boundary your present state has drawn, the handbreadth a narrow measure of time imagined as final. Then the verse declares, my hope is in thee, which means my awareness is anchored in the I AM, the unchanging presence within. When you stop seeking outside outcomes and treat the I AM as reality, you dissolve vanity and rest in a luminous present. The world’s agitation—disquieted in vain, heapeth up riches—appears as signs of your shifting inner posture. By imagining from the end you desire as already real, you revise the conditions; you feel the actuality of that end now, and the outer scene begins to answer. The psalmist’s cry becomes your confidence: hope in the I AM, and let that presence govern your sense of time, measure, and worth.